Lamentations 4:2

The Scriptures 2009

The precious sons of Tsiyon Who were weighed against fine gold, How they have been reckoned as clay pots, The work of the hands of the potter!

Cross References

Isaiah 30:14

And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel, which is broken in pieces, without sparing, so that there is not found among its fragments a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water from the cistern.

Isaiah 51:18

Of all the sons she bore, she has none to guide her. And of all the sons she has brought up, none is strengthening her hand.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said יהוה, “Go and get a potter’s earthen jug, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה of hosts, “Even so I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which one is unable to repair again. And let them bury them in Topheth till there is no place to bury.

Jeremiah 22:28

“Is this man Konyahu a despised broken pot, or an undesirable vessel? Why are they hurled out, he and his descendants, and cast into a land which they do not know?

Lamentations 2:21

“Young and old lie on the ground in the streets. My maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of Your displeasure, You have slaughtered without compassion.

Lamentations 5:12

Rulers were hung up by their hands, And elders were not respected.

Hosea 8:8

“Yisra’ĕl has been swallowed up. They have now become among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

Zechariah 9:13

“For I shall bend Yehuḏah for Me, I shall fill the bow with Ephrayim, and I shall stir up your sons, O Tsiyon, against your sons, O Greece, and I shall make you like the sword of a mighty man.”

2 Corinthians 4:7

And we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power might be of Elohim, and not of us –

2 Timothy 2:20

But in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some unto value and some unto no value.